In this guide, we will cover the entire process on how to build your own private blog network from scratch, or how to upgrade and use your existing network and get the maximum results.

This post is a sum of 2 years of research and over 5000 PBN sites tested during this period.

What to expect from this guide?

In the beginning we will cover some basic definitions for newcomers, and advanced users can read in-depth guides for each topic. You can skip the intro and beginner guide if you are an advanced you can skip to Chapter 1.

SEO is a dynamic world that changes every few months, so I will update the guide with new information from our studies and post them on our facebook page.

I will not cover obsolete tactics to avoid confusion (hosting on hostnine, cloudflare etc.) Only current and up to date strategies.

How to get ​the most out of this guide?

Go through each chapter and read it carefully. If you have questions, or if you need help implementing what you learned here, you can always contact me via facebook, skype, email or comment on a blog post (I check them every day).

What is a PBN?

Private Blog Network is a group of sites owned and maintained by an individual or group, used as a source of backlinks to the money site for the purpose of increasing Search Engine Ranking.

“Money site is the main website that you intend to rank for certain keywords and make a profit.”

How PBN Works?

Blog network sites have existing authority from the expired (or auction) domain and pass the trust and relevance via a contextual link within the body of the content, increasing the overall domain authority of your main site.

Are there any risks involved?

Any form of link-building is against Google guidelines. The benefits far outweigh the risk of penalty in my opinion. If you do It properly, you will minimize the risk and maximize the results and ROI from your sites.

Why PBNs still work?

There is an endless debate about this. After each Google update, scores of people complain how their websites got deindexed and that PBNs are dead.

It’s not entirely true because backlinks are the single most important factor when it comes to ranking, right after good On-Page SEO.

Backlinks are the essence of trust on Google. If an authority site such as bbc.co.uk links to you, it means that your site is worth checking out. Just like a testimonial for a local business owner, a backlink is a vote for your site.

Unless Google completely disregards links as a ranking signal, PBNs will continue to work. It’s just a matter of adapting to changes.

Google algorithm updates are happening all the time, and usually, one or two major updates hit SEO world each year.

To survive these major updates you need to make sure that your network is bulletproof on all fronts, and there are myriad things to watch out when building and maintaining a PBN.

Chapter 1: Planning Your PBN

A good plan implemented today is better than perfect plan implemented tomorrow. - General George Patton

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I often get the question “How many PBN links do I need to rank in this niche?”

To determine the number of links and sites needed to rank a certain niche you have to check your competition. Are they using a blog network? Are they an authority in the niche? How many referring domains do they have?

Making a spreadsheet of all these things will give you an idea how many sites you need to build in order to rank.

In the first part of our series we will go over:

How to determine the number of links needed to rank

How much does it cost to build a good network

How to cluster your sites and keep them safe

Niche Relevancy and does it really matter

Common questions answered

Preparation is crucial to success. You will avoid headaches later on when you want to scale and even save money.

Domains are the foundation of your network. It is important that we take things like backlink and spam checks seriously because it can mean the difference between good result, no result or even worse, negative result.

Hosting is the most important thing to watch out for when building a proper PBN and usually where people go wrong. I have seen a lot of people buying $200 domains, hosting them on $1 hosts only to end up losing the entire network.

​A word of notice: SEO hosting should be avoided because of massive footprints. I have tested this and got 30-40%+ deindex rate.

In this chapter we will go over:

Hosting Solutions to Avoid

Self Managed Cloud Server setup

Easy Blog Networks

Hosting your PBNs on Premium cPanel Hosting

Best Companies you can use

In this post I will go over how to host a PBN with detailed description of the three methods I think are the best in 2017.

Now days it's not enough to have a basic WordPress theme installed with a spun text. Times have changed and you need to add real value to the users in order to remain indexed and actually benefit the sites you ranking to with your PBN.

Chapter 7: How to Get Traffic for your PBN

In this chapter you will learn three of my favorite methods of generating initial PBN traffic for your websites to increase the performance by as much as 300%. It will also allow your websites to bridge that gap between a PBN and a proper website.

About Me

Hey, I'm Nemanja, co-founder of Leads Fox and PBN Fox services and 29 year old entrepreneur from Serbia. I spent last 5 years in SEO and Marketing. I enjoy traveling the world, meeting new people, writing about content marketing, SEO and conversion optimization. If you need help or if you have questions regarding our services or blog posts feel free to contact me.